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Of course your motherboard will read a complete 4Gb because it a direct
detection of hardware. Like XP, Vista x32 "supports" 4gb but it will only
show a certain amount because it holds a certain amount for other purposes
tied to the OS. The only time you will see a complete "4GB" is if you use x64.

"Arthur" wrote:
> Of course your motherboard will read a complete 4Gb because it a direct
> detection of hardware. Like XP, Vista x32 "supports" 4gb but it will only
> show a certain amount because it holds a certain amount for other purposes
> tied to the OS. The only time you will see a complete "4GB" is if you use x64.
>
> "Patrick" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D mainboard with 4x Kingston HyperX 1GB
> > modules. So it's 4GB.
> > This is the case:
> >
> > With PCI MMIO disabled in the bios, the bios and Vista detect around 3.2GB
> > RAM
> > With PCI MMIO enabled in the bios, the bios detects 4GB and Vista detects
> > 3GB (3070MB).
> >
> > Vista X32 should support 4GB, the mainboard does support 4GB.
> >
> > How do I get my 1GB? I didn't buy that extra 2GB dual channel kit for just
> > 1GB of extra RAM
> >
> > Patrick
> >

Key here is....... 4 gigabytes available!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Arthur" <Arthur@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F4A265D-A24A-4EF8-8DDE-A55846558DA1@microsoft.com...
> Of course your motherboard will read a complete 4Gb because it a direct
> detection of hardware. Like XP, Vista x32 "supports" 4gb but it will only
> show a certain amount because it holds a certain amount for other purposes
> tied to the OS. The only time you will see a complete "4GB" is if you use
> x64.
>
> "Patrick" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D mainboard with 4x Kingston HyperX 1GB
>> modules. So it's 4GB.
>> This is the case:
>>
>> With PCI MMIO disabled in the bios, the bios and Vista detect around
>> 3.2GB
>> RAM
>> With PCI MMIO enabled in the bios, the bios detects 4GB and Vista detects
>> 3GB (3070MB).
>>
>> Vista X32 should support 4GB, the mainboard does support 4GB.
>>
>> How do I get my 1GB? I didn't buy that extra 2GB dual channel kit for
>> just
>> 1GB of extra RAM
>>
>> Patrick
>>

The only other thing that I see missing is if he has shared RAM for video?
If he has 1GB shared to video there's the missing RAM Sounds pretty wierd
to me unless he has the matched pair that isn't matched, in the wrong slots,
But it should be showing at least 4MB from the POST screen.